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Motion Controlled Smartphone Previewed
BoB writes "The folks at MobileBurn have had a chance to play in detail with a new motion controlled smartphone prototype by MyOrigo, called 'mydevice'. Surprisingly, it actually works quite well, and the writer claims it's fun to use, too. Is this the start of a whole range of motion controlled devices?" We covered a previous showing of MyOrigo's device a few months back.
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It was a clear and pleasant summer day in Goleta, California, where I was spending the summer at a private school situated by Santa Barbara Bay. I was only fourteen at the time. As it was summer break, there were no classes, but instead many outdoor activities. The school had a rather decent size pool -- not necessarily an 50m Olympic size, but nevertheless quite large, in an L shape.
I was having fun when, at one point, I felt that I had to take care of a little pressing business behind me. I had just gotten out earlier to use the toilet for frontal business, and I was not about to get out of the pool again! So I decided, "The hell with it!" and let loose in my swimming trunks, getting rid of all excess expenditures.
I had expected that this excess baggage would simply fall towards the bottom of the pool. However, this was not the case at all. Instead, some immediately surfaced, unveiling itself in full view of the other swimmers and the lifeguard. Further, more lumps decided to migrate to other parts of the pool, including the shallow end on the other part of the L. My shit was everywhere! I thought to myself, "Oh fuck! What am I going to do now?"
A couple of minutes went by when I felt another load brewing. This time, to my surprise, it was liquid! "Uh oh!" I thought. "Great. Now I have the runny shits." It definitely was quite obvious -- a brownish cloud began to form in the otherwise-clear water. The lifeguard saw the mess and blew his whistle, ordering all of us out of the water.
The next thing I knew was that all of us (except His Majesty the lifeguard) had to take one (white) towel and go back into the water to pick up as best as possible the turds thus scattered about. We picked up all that were visible and got out of the pool. Then we were told that from that moment, all swimming privileges for the remainder of the summer break were effectively cancelled!
Well, of course, this did not sit too well with us at all, having the pool taken away from us on these hot summer days. There were rumblings that whoever was responsible would be beaten to a pulp.
I was now caught between a rock and a hard place. I most certainly was not going to come forth and wind up physically assaulted by the rest of the student body -- but at the same time, I felt pretty bad for having caused our swimming privileges to be suspended. What was I to do?
We had gotten out of the pool, supposedly for the remainder of the summer, and were headed back to our respective dorms. En route, I nearly gave myself away as I inadvertently let loose a bit in my trunks. I still had the runny shits! Great. I had to be careful, especially just leaving the pool area under these circumstances, as I most certainly did not wish to wind up as pulp, thank you all the same.
I was able to make it back to my dorm and to the loo as well. I was in the beginning phases of becoming sick. I felt weak, and chilled. I climbed into bed -- I was just not feeling well at all. I even hurled once. I was concerned that being sick with diarrhea at this time would be a possible giveaway of who had shat in the pool. Fortunately, I was alone in my room, and I fell asleep.
I awoke later with a near accident in bed, as I had to use the loo again. By this time my roommates had returned, and conversation ensued; the topic, of course, was the event earlier that day at the pool. Threatening talk was made to really pulverize the culprit -- the student body was (understandably) rather upset of having our swimming privileges cut short. I lied and volunteered that I had become sick because of the event that happened that day. I told my roommates that I must of have caught something from that mess that had caused me to get sick.
I made frequent visits to the john all throughout the night, and didn't get sufficient sleep. I made it appear as if my frequent visits were caused by whoever let loose in the pool. And it worked! In fact, a rumor spread all around the school that I was the first victim of that dastardly act. Thu
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plans continued? & why not? it's all good.
actually, this stuff is unbreakable, operates seamlessly on several (more than 3) dimensions, & offers unlimited energy to build on.
a real nightmare for the whoreabull payper liesense corepirate nazi softwar gangster stock markup fraud execrable/walking dead contingent.
for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the greed/fear/ego based perpetraitors of the life0cide against the planet/population, will not be available to make reparations.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators... get ready to be enlightened.
you won't be needing any phonIE watch-you gadget to be able to detect the direction of the wwwinds of change, which are bullowing at gale force/farce.
felonious softwar gangsters hoping to freeze time? (Score:mynuts won, wrong #?)
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday December 11, @06:35AM (#7688518)
buy striking DOWn UN motion to promote gnu/free stuff to developing nations.
they seem to have hit the eXPanding georgewellian fuddite corepirate nazi
execrable moretoll bullock. it's really just a sintax (t)error, whereas
the fuddites' infactdead process, keeps replacing the 'one' in one
wwworld, with won.
lookout bullow. continued pretending does not help/makes things worse?, if that's even possible.
united? nations? just won?
consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... the light itself, is not frozen, but
does does function just as well in extremely low temperatures, all the
way down to mynuts won? see you there?
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after disappearing/stealing millions/billions of J.'s hardearned future, are sentenced, to probation? what a surprise?
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Hea
the cesspool is swirling. lookout bullow.
Parent is troll, thats a google cache and not goatse.
Die troll.
great lesson in 'business'/life ?ethics? for all of you/yOUR kids who ARE watching what's going on? tell 'em robbIE?
still waiting for 'stuff that (really) matters' to be presented?
If you get modded up for posting this, I swear I'm gonna open the window and scream "Heil Hitroll" so loud the whole hood is going to think that Nazi trolls have invaded the US.
i can't read the article, so i'll make fun of it... how the hell does one "play in detail"? HALLO?? SPEAKIE ENGRISH PPLZ!? nyah...
Ok it looks really cool but I want to know the important stuff like what OS does it run on? If it's WinCE then it's garbage. Anything else, I'm interested.
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